Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] Help testing OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 preview installers?

2016-10-12 Thread Selva Nair 
Hi,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Jose Alf.  wrote:

> I tested the 64 bit installer on Windows 7 Enterprise using default
> settings. It ran smoothly. I notice that now there are 3 services - OpenVPN
> Interactive Service (appears started automatic)
> - OpenVPN Legacy Service (manual)
> - OpenVPNService (manual)
>
> Any pointers to documentation about this?
>

> I use OpenVPN-MI-GUI. I had to start OpenVPNService to connect to my
> server. Other than that, it worked fine.


To add to what Samuli wrote:

With MI-GUI, all you have to do is just start OpenVPNService (same as
previous previous versions) -- under the hood the service has changed, but
the functionality is the same.

That said, if the reason for using MI-GUI is to avoid running the GUI as
admin, now there is a better way. Do not run OpenVPNService and start
OpenVPN GUI included in the distribution as normal user. It will start
openvpn as normal user assisted by the interactive service (which is
automatically started). The main advantage is that both the GUI and
openvpn.exe will run as normal user minimizing code run as admin.

Also there are a number of improvements in the GUI including ability to
store config files in user profile, menu to import the config file to the
right location, optionally remember passwords,  support for prompting
static challenge, configuration menu for all options (no need to edit the
registry) etc.

Selva
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Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] Help testing OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 preview installers?

2016-10-12 Thread Samuli Seppänen 
Hi Jose,

Thanks for testing! The documentation about the new services is probably 
suboptimal right now. I will need to improve it a bit, because I believe 
what is said here



is all we have right now. Quickly summarizing:

1) OpenVPNService (provided by openvpnserv2.exe)

This is a new background service based on openvpnserv2. It is intended 
for running one or more VPN connections in the background without user 
interaction.

2) OpenVPNServiceInteractive (provided by openvpnserv.exe)

This service co-operates with OpenVPN-GUI to allow unprivileged users to 
successfully launch VPN connection.

3) OpenVPNServiceLegacy (provided by openvpnserv.exe)

This is the old background service. It does not work well on anything 
post-Windows 7 and is pretty crude in general. It is intended for 
running one or more VPN connections in the background without user 
interaction.

I will add this documentation somewhere - probably INSTALL-win32.txt.

-- 
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock


Il 12/10/2016 14:29, Jose Alf. ha scritto:
> Samuli,
>
> I tested the 64 bit installer on Windows 7 Enterprise using default
> settings. It ran smoothly. I notice that now there are 3 services -
> OpenVPN Interactive Service (appears started automatic)
> - OpenVPN Legacy Service (manual)
> - OpenVPNService (manual)
>
> Any pointers to documentation about this?
>
> I use OpenVPN-MI-GUI. I had to start OpenVPNService to connect to my
> server. Other than that, it worked fine.
>
> Regards,
> Jose
>
> 
> *From:* Samuli Seppänen 
> *To:* "openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
> ;
> "openvpn-us...@lists.sourceforge.net" 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:36 AM
> *Subject:* [Openvpn-users] Help testing OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 preview
> installers?
>
> Hi all,
>
> We're really close to OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 release now. In yesterday's IRC
> meeting[1] we deemed that "late this week" might be doable.
>
> However, we'd need to help with testing these preview installers:
>
> 
> 
>
> Note that the installers contain a much improved OpenVPN-GUI that
> behaves differently under the hood from the one bundled in OpenVPN 2.3.x:
>
> 
>
> The installer also contains a new, much improved Windows system service
> called openvpnserv2:
>
> 
>
> Based on earlier tests openvpnserv2 should be able to handle
> suspend/resume gracefully. It should also automatically restart a
> connection that dies for whatever reason.
>
> So far the installers linked to above have passed some basic tests:
>
> 
>
> If you can, please test the installers in your environment and let us
> know how it went: we'd like to minimize the chance of breaking existing
> setups before we make the official 2.4-alpha1 release.
>
> --
> Samuli Seppänen
> Community Manager
> OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
>
> irc freenode net: mattock
>
>
> [1]
> 
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